Dear Oneida County researchers, I must admit either my frustration or my naiveté in trying to use the Sampubco system to find the volume and page number of a document to order either from them or directly from the appropriate Oneida County record source. I printed out the order form to obtain a marriage license. The search and order instructions are clear but do not work. I selected New York but, in the list of counties, only Cayuga can be opened. Cannot get to Oneida which is not "clickable". Looking at Cayuga, all one gets is an alpha listing of grooms and brides. All are in Vol.1 and no page numbers are listed. Without reference to time periods how does know the appropriate volume number is one or sixteen? Can anyone explain to an 85 year old how the system works? Am trying to find a marriage in Oneida County around 1810-1820. Thank you. ALAN

VJessie Deith wrote: You mentioned that you obtained a will through http://www.sampubco.com/wills/ny/newyork.htm#oneida I have spotted several wills that look interesting, but how do you read them? You have to buy them. The directions are on the main pages. You can buy an exact copy of the will, or as I remember, for an extra fee, have it transcribed for you. I've always preferred to transcribe it myself from a photocopy of the original. I've always been very pleased with his service. The cost has gone up (what hasn't!) since I ordered my first from him, years ago, but it's well worth it -- certainly if you can't go to the local courthouse yourself to search and have copies made if you find anything. Jean Snow

Sampubco does provide a good service but you can get the same documents he offers elsewhere cheaper. He uses LDS microfilms to copy the records. You can do the same. Using the index at sampubco you can also order the record yourself from the Oneida Co. Surrogate's Court. I ordered a will from the court and paid about $3 (including postage) for an 8 page will. On 3/21/07, Maureen Girard <maureen@redshift.com> wrote: > > > Apparently this company provides vital records for the State of New York > (perhaps other states as well). I was able to get a will for an ancestor > through this service that had not come to light in any other way, so I was > very pleased. It is not free, but it's less expensive than a trip to NY! > > Maureen in CA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Janis Rodriguez > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:05 PM > To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] query Janis Rodriquez > > > I actually bought a copy of the will from Sampubco. It was only three > pages > but a great find as it named all the daughters by their married names and > I > could easily track them to Censuses! I also ordered it despite the date, > 1862, being wrong for him. He died in 1847, but his wife died in 1862 and > that was when the will was probated. > > http://www.sampubco.com/wills/search.htm > > Then I transcribed it and sent it to Rootsweb. The transcriptions are at > so > you should check there to see if someone already transcribed it! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/nysearch-wills.htm > > Happy Hunting! > Jan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Jessie Deith > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:11 PM > To: NYONEIDA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NYONEIDA] query Janis Rodriquez > > You mentioned that you obtained a will through > http://www.sampubco.com/wills/ny/newyork.htm#oneida > > I have spotted several wills that look interesting, but how do you read > them? > Jessie Deith > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I actually bought a copy of the will from Sampubco. It was only three pages but a great find as it named all the daughters by their married names and I could easily track them to Censuses! I also ordered it despite the date, 1862, being wrong for him. He died in 1847, but his wife died in 1862 and that was when the will was probated. http://www.sampubco.com/wills/search.htm Then I transcribed it and sent it to Rootsweb. The transcriptions are at so you should check there to see if someone already transcribed it! http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/nysearch-wills.htm Happy Hunting! Jan -----Original Message----- From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jessie Deith Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:11 PM To: NYONEIDA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYONEIDA] query Janis Rodriquez You mentioned that you obtained a will through http://www.sampubco.com/wills/ny/newyork.htm#oneida I have spotted several wills that look interesting, but how do you read them? Jessie Deith ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You mentioned that you obtained a will through http://www.sampubco.com/wills/ny/newyork.htm#oneida I have spotted several wills that look interesting, but how do you read them? Jessie Deith

Apparently this company provides vital records for the State of New York (perhaps other states as well). I was able to get a will for an ancestor through this service that had not come to light in any other way, so I was very pleased. It is not free, but it's less expensive than a trip to NY! Maureen in CA -----Original Message----- From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janis Rodriguez Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:05 PM To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] query Janis Rodriquez I actually bought a copy of the will from Sampubco. It was only three pages but a great find as it named all the daughters by their married names and I could easily track them to Censuses! I also ordered it despite the date, 1862, being wrong for him. He died in 1847, but his wife died in 1862 and that was when the will was probated. http://www.sampubco.com/wills/search.htm Then I transcribed it and sent it to Rootsweb. The transcriptions are at so you should check there to see if someone already transcribed it! http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/nysearch-wills.htm Happy Hunting! Jan -----Original Message----- From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jessie Deith Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:11 PM To: NYONEIDA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYONEIDA] query Janis Rodriquez You mentioned that you obtained a will through http://www.sampubco.com/wills/ny/newyork.htm#oneida I have spotted several wills that look interesting, but how do you read them? Jessie Deith ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I obtained my 4th great grandfather's will through this site. http://www.sampubco.com/wills/ny/newyork.htm#oneida For some reason I do not see it now, perhaps because my transcription is on the USGENWEB site. I only see two Ransoms in Oneida, though... http://www.sampubco.com/wills/ny/nyoneida09.htm RANSOM, CLARISSA CAMDEN NY-33-14-267 RANSOM, JOSHUA CAMDEN NY-33-4-69 Jan -----Original Message----- From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:11 PM To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] 1850 look up please thanks- those are my line. I am trying to find out more about Thomas b 1776, d 1852 and Ira b 1781 , d 1861. I think they must be realated??? Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janis Rodriguez" <ivakota@smartneighborhood.net> To: <nyoneida@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] 1850 look up please >I found the following info thru Google... Don't know if it matches your > Ransoms. Good luck! Jan > > http://rhodesfamily.org/miscellanies.htm > > ----------------------------------------- > daughter Mary RHODES b 1793 MA m. Elijah RANSOM b 1790 MA or NY > children: > Elijah Ransom Jr b 1820 Oneida Co, NY > Schuyler Ransom b 1822 Oneida Co, NY > Mary Rhodes Ransom b 1824 Oneida Co, NY > Thomas Ransom b 1826 Oneida Co, NY > Martha Ransom b 1830 Oneida Co, NY > Bradley Varnum Ransom b 1831 Oneida Co, NY > Ira Ransom b 1840 Oneida Co, NY > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of genbug > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:47 AM > To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] 1850 look up please > > 1850 Camden, Oneida , NY > Page 239,240: > Ira Ransom 69 Laborer Real Estate worth $100 born MASS Eleanor Ransom 78 > born MASS > > I don't see a Thomas Ransom in Oneida Co. > > > On 3/19/07, Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen <pattitwirler@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Could someone with access to 1850 Oneida county, NY census please look >> up- >> >> I would like to know about their children and families. >> >> Both died in Camden, Oneida, NY >> Ira Ransom d 1861 >> Thomas Ransom d 1852 >> >> thanks3 >> Patti >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I found the following info thru Google... Don't know if it matches your Ransoms. Good luck! Jan http://rhodesfamily.org/miscellanies.htm ----------------------------------------- daughter Mary RHODES b 1793 MA m. Elijah RANSOM b 1790 MA or NY children: Elijah Ransom Jr b 1820 Oneida Co, NY Schuyler Ransom b 1822 Oneida Co, NY Mary Rhodes Ransom b 1824 Oneida Co, NY Thomas Ransom b 1826 Oneida Co, NY Martha Ransom b 1830 Oneida Co, NY Bradley Varnum Ransom b 1831 Oneida Co, NY Ira Ransom b 1840 Oneida Co, NY -----Original Message----- From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of genbug Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:47 AM To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] 1850 look up please 1850 Camden, Oneida , NY Page 239,240: Ira Ransom 69 Laborer Real Estate worth $100 born MASS Eleanor Ransom 78 born MASS I don't see a Thomas Ransom in Oneida Co. On 3/19/07, Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen <pattitwirler@comcast.net> wrote: > > Could someone with access to 1850 Oneida county, NY census please look > up- > > I would like to know about their children and families. > > Both died in Camden, Oneida, NY > Ira Ransom d 1861 > Thomas Ransom d 1852 > > thanks3 > Patti > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

thanks- those are my line. I am trying to find out more about Thomas b 1776, d 1852 and Ira b 1781 , d 1861. I think they must be realated??? Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janis Rodriguez" <ivakota@smartneighborhood.net> To: <nyoneida@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] 1850 look up please >I found the following info thru Google... Don't know if it matches your > Ransoms. Good luck! Jan > > http://rhodesfamily.org/miscellanies.htm > > ----------------------------------------- > daughter Mary RHODES b 1793 MA m. Elijah RANSOM b 1790 MA or NY > children: > Elijah Ransom Jr b 1820 Oneida Co, NY > Schuyler Ransom b 1822 Oneida Co, NY > Mary Rhodes Ransom b 1824 Oneida Co, NY > Thomas Ransom b 1826 Oneida Co, NY > Martha Ransom b 1830 Oneida Co, NY > Bradley Varnum Ransom b 1831 Oneida Co, NY > Ira Ransom b 1840 Oneida Co, NY > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of genbug > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:47 AM > To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] 1850 look up please > > 1850 Camden, Oneida , NY > Page 239,240: > Ira Ransom 69 Laborer Real Estate worth $100 born MASS Eleanor Ransom 78 > born MASS > > I don't see a Thomas Ransom in Oneida Co. > > > On 3/19/07, Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen <pattitwirler@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Could someone with access to 1850 Oneida county, NY census please look >> up- >> >> I would like to know about their children and families. >> >> Both died in Camden, Oneida, NY >> Ira Ransom d 1861 >> Thomas Ransom d 1852 >> >> thanks3 >> Patti >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

1850 Camden, Oneida , NY Page 239,240: Ira Ransom 69 Laborer Real Estate worth $100 born MASS Eleanor Ransom 78 born MASS I don't see a Thomas Ransom in Oneida Co. On 3/19/07, Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen <pattitwirler@comcast.net> wrote: > > Could someone with access to 1850 Oneida county, NY census please look up- > > I would like to know about their children and families. > > Both died in Camden, Oneida, NY > Ira Ransom d 1861 > Thomas Ransom d 1852 > > thanks3 > Patti > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Could someone with access to 1850 Oneida county, NY census please look up- I would like to know about their children and families. Both died in Camden, Oneida, NY Ira Ransom d 1861 Thomas Ransom d 1852 thanks3 Patti

Jan I am very, very interested in the Holmes family from Oneida County. I believe my gggrandfather, Thomas, was born there in 1829. Thank you so very much! Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "jan abrams" <jan@abrams.net> To: <NYONEIDA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:01 AM Subject: [NYONEIDA] Gould/Stevens/Benedict/Holmes >I am researching the subject families and have much information from Ct. >where most of these > people originated. Willing to share any data I have. The Oneida County > web site has been enormously helpful. > > Jan Rung Abrams > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am researching the subject families and have much information from Ct. where most of these people originated. Willing to share any data I have. The Oneida County web site has been enormously helpful. Jan Rung Abrams

Seeking obituary for Elbert G. COOK, b. 1848 West Moreland, Oneida Co., NY, son of Jonas Platt COOK and Catherine FULLER who died 07 Dec. 1924 at age 76y 10 m 12d in Piermont, Rockland, NY. He married abt. 1871 Sophia REICHLING or REICKLING, was a Justice of the Peace, and had a daughter Rosella [Rozell] COOK b. abt. 1872. They lived in Orangetown, [Piermont], Rockland Co., NY, from 1880-1920, and 'cousin' Arlene and I have a copy of the censuses. He had a sister Mary A. COOK SUTTON b. abt. 1846, widowed, who was living with them in the 1910 and 1920 censuses in Piermont, Rockland, NY. I have a copy of the burial record from the White Funeral Home in Nyack. He is buried at Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill, NY. Mrs. D.C. WANEGAR [WAGNER, WAGGNER, WAGONER, WAGGONER, WAGENAAR] was billed for the burial, but I do not know if or how she was related. Many Thanks :) in advance, Jan Jordan in VT <jnrose@webtv.net>

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you all! My one Irish line immigrated in the last half of the 1700s. John Kelty born 1750 in County Cork, Ireland, and immigrated at the age of 17. While in Lancaster, PA in 1776 he enlisted in a rifle company and ended up serving in the Revolutionary War for 4 1/2 years after being transferred to the infantry under General "Mad Anthony" Wayne! He fought in the Battles of White Plains, Princeton, and Germantown and spent the winter in Valley Forge. After the war he mustered out in New Jersey where he married Margaret Conner, also from Ireland. She was the daughter of Bryan Conner and Jane King. The Kelty's moved to New York early in their married life and lived in Westchester, Oneida and Monroe counties. He died in Peterboro, Monroe County, in 1833. I am descended from their daughter Jane Ann Kelty (1784-1862) who married David Gray (1776-1847) of Perth, Scotland. They lived in Utica and Deerfield. In 1829, their daughter Jane Ann Gray (1806-1880) married, as his second wife, Harris Northup (1793-1849) in Oneida County. Harris was the son of Remington Northup and Amy Knowles. Harris and Jane left Oneida for Brooklyn in the 1840s where Harris was one of the first to die the cholera which swept the country. Janis Parkison Rodriguez

16 additional town histories for New York State have been added to my web site as follows. Herkimer County The towns of Frankfort, Litchfield, Norway, Russia and Schuyler. Lewis County The town of Watson. Montgomery County The towns of Amsterdam, Charleston, Glen and St. Johnsville. Oneida County The towns of Deerfield, Florence, Marci, Marshall, Trenton and Verona. Like all the New York history files at my web site they may be found through this link. http://history.rays-place.com/ny/index.htm Cheers Ray Brown http://www.rays-place.com

More town histories for New York have been added to my web site as follows: Oneida County The towns of Bridgewater, Lee, Paris, Sangerfield, Vernon and Whitestown. Herkimer County The towns of Columbia, Danube, Fairfield, Herkimer, Ohio, Warren, Wilmurt and Winfield. Fulton County The town of Mayfield was added. As with the other towns in Fulton County this history is quite long and mentions many of the residents. With adding towns for Herkimer County this makes 36 Counties that I have local histories online for. Some completed and some that are still being worked on. All New York history files at my web site may be found from this link: http://history.rays-place.com/ny/index.htm Cheers Ray Brown http://www.rays-place.com

In the John Stillwell book (or any other one someone has), is there some info on Oneida County residents? My ancestor John Parker and his children Leonard (born in Oneida in 1802), Asa, David, Thomas, and Edith-Ede lived there from the early 1800s unItl they moved to Ohio sometime before 1826. John lived in Cummington, MA before that. Thanks! Marilee Cunningham Message: 3 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:15:53 EDT From: Alicedenny@aol.com Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] More town histories for New York (oneida andOnondaga Counties) To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <c87.c7e29c1.3325e7a9@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" EGAD! This is an example of the old saying that "haste DOES make waste!" I rushed that off when I saw that more town histories in New York - especially Oneida - were available! William Saltar (1757-1853) moved to the area in around 1802. A source said that he was an officer in the U. S. Bank in Utica, but they have no record of that. His son-in-law - Benjamin Walker - aide and adopted son of the Baron von Steuben was the president. My source (HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY by John Stillwell) also said that in 1796 the condition of the Indians was so unsatisfactory that Joseph Saltar (Wm.'s father) was with others appointed to attend to the lands assigned to the Indians. Wm. Saltar and two other men were appointed commissioners to sell their lands. I haven't found that anywhere else, either! <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:29:23 -0400 From: jnrose@webtv.net (Jan J.) Subject: [NYONEIDA] Salter-Mappa More town histories for New York (oneida and Onondaga Co) To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <BAY111-DAV976998ECDA5E173C3DA60D67E0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Hi Alice, Did Sarah marry into the family for which Mappa Avenue is named after? John Hughes [1834-1919] and Susan Jones [1838-1917], (my 2 great grandparents), came from North Wales. They had several children, among them being Edwin Hughes [1860-1931], the justice of the peace in Barneveld, NY. Jennie Hughes, the youngest, married Howard MacIntosh. They ran a big lumber yard in Barneveld ( MacIntosh & Jepson), and lived just across Mappa Avenue from Edwin Hughes' home. John Hughes sold the plot of ground on which the library stands. Happy searching, Jan Jordan <jnrose@webtv.net> <Sarah Salter Mappa of Trenton/Oldenbarnveld...Alice> ------------------------------ To contact the NYONEIDA list administrator, send an email to NYONEIDA-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the NYONEIDA mailing list, send an email to NYONEIDA@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of NYONEIDA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 54 ***************************************

Here is another Saltar with a similar story. Here is Edwin Salter's biography. As you can see I am digging the OCR features of my new scanner. This is from the same book as the article. Quote: Edwin Salter died at Forked River, N. J., December 15, 1888, aged sixty-four years. He was the son of Amos Salter and Sarah Frazier, and was descended from some of the oldest families of Monmouth county-the Bownes, Lawrences and Hartshornes. His original ancestor in America emigrated from Devonshire, England, and settled at Middletown previous to 1687. He was a lawyer, a man of distinguished ability, which was illustrated in the part which he took as counsel with Captain John Bowne in the controversies of the people with the Lords' Proprietors. Edwin Salter was born in Bloomingdale, Morris Co., February 6th, 1824. While a youth, he removed with his parents to the more northern part of the State. At the age of fourteen, he became a member of a Presbyterian Sunday school in Newark; three years later he made a profession of his faith in Christ, in a church of the same order. He subsequently removed to Philadelphia and was there employed as a clerk in a book-store, but afterwards removed to Forked River and taught school. For a time he led a seafaring life, being master of a schooner in the coasting trade. In 1857 he was elected by the Republicans of Ocean county as their representative in the Assembly of New Jersey, the first Free Soil member in that body. He was returned for the two following years and in the session of 1859 he was elected Speaker and filled the position with great ability. In 1861 he received an appointment in the United States Treasury Department, which he held for five years, when he resigned. He was reappointed shortly afterwards to a clerkship in the Fourth Auditor's office, where he remained till 1886, when he returned to Ocean County. He had a taste for historical research, especially in the study of genealogical lines. He spent much of his time in his later years in prosecuting his researches into the history of the early families of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, his residence at Washington affording him peculiar facilities for the work, through his ready access to the National Archives. The information here obtained was supplemented by searches of the public records of States and counties, north and south. At the time of his death he had accumulated a vast amount of historical and genealogical matter-the work of years of patient and laborious research-for a history of Monmouth and Ocean counties, which he had long contemplated publishing. Referring to notices he had prepared of the principal families now represented in Monmouth, he wrote in a letter to a friend on the 14th of November, 1888, only a month before his death, "Take the matter altogether, I believe it will be the most complete account of the early settlers (and settlement) ever published of any county in the United States settled previous to 1700." Mr. Salter was the author of a series of historical sketches published in the Monmouth Democrat, 1873-'74, entitled "Old Times in Old Monmouth." His frequent contributions to the journals of Monmouth and Ocean over the signatures of "Selah Searcher" and "Pilot," bear testimony among others to his zeal in historical study and his readiness to give the fruits of his research to his fellow citizens. Edwin Salter's name stands enrolled as a member of a Presbyterian Sunday-school at Forked River, in 1831. In 1860, he was superintendent of the same school, beside teaching the Bible-class. He married, in 1852, Margaret Bodine, of Barnegat, who survives him. Their son, George W. Salter, a most estimable young man, died at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 27th, 1880, of typhus fever, while stationed at that port as paymaster's clerk of the United States Naval Depot. Mr. Salter was a man of great force of character, generous, open-hearted and strong in the maintenance of the right. He had no sympathy with lawlessness or lowness of aim. Without pretension, he aspired to the best in personal, domestic and social life. In his religious life there was no affectation or cant. A genuine heartiness and catholicity of spirit moulded his creed and his conduct. His manners were genial, his spirit was broad and liberal. He was a simple-hearted, earnest Christian gentleman. He filled a large place in the affections of his friends and acquaintances, by whom his death is most sincerely mourned. He was elected a member of the New Jersey Historical Society on May 21st, 1863, and was esteemed one its most valuable members in promoting the purposes of its organization. His remains were laid in the Masonic Cemetery at Barnegat, after a funeral service held at the Presbyterian Church. John S Wilkinson, Rome, New York "Grandchildren are God's reward for not strangling your teenagers." -----Original Message----- From: nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyoneida-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Alicedenny@aol.com Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 7:16 PM To: nyoneida@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] More town histories for New York (oneida andOnondagaCounties) EGAD! This is an example of the old saying that "haste DOES make waste!" I rushed that off when I saw that more town histories in New York - especially Oneida - were available! William Saltar (1757-1853) moved to the area in around 1802. A source said that he was an officer in the U. S. Bank in Utica, but they have no record of that. His son-in-law - Benjamin Walker - aide and adopted son of the Baron von Steuben was the president. My source (HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY by John Stillwell) also said that in 1796 the condition of the Indians was so unsatisfactory that Joseph Saltar (Wm.'s father) was with others appointed to attend to the lands assigned to the Indians. Wm. Saltar and two other men were appointed commissioners to sell their lands. I haven't found that anywhere else, either! <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Alice, Did Sarah marry into the family for which Mappa Avenue is named after? John Hughes [1834-1919] and Susan Jones [1838-1917], (my 2 great grandparents), came from North Wales. They had several children, among them being Edwin Hughes [1860-1931], the justice of the peace in Barneveld, NY. Jennie Hughes, the youngest, married Howard MacIntosh. They ran a big lumber yard in Barneveld ( MacIntosh & Jepson), and lived just across Mappa Avenue from Edwin Hughes' home. John Hughes sold the plot of ground on which the library stands. Happy searching, Jan Jordan <jnrose@webtv.net> <Sarah Salter Mappa of Trenton/Oldenbarnveld...Alice>